Program overview

MONDAY AFTERNOON, 25 JUNE 2001

Session D1. Town Hall Meeting: Advances Important to Computation Physics Education.

Monday afternoon, 15:30, Building 10, Room 250

15:30 D1.001 Town Hall Meeting: Advances Important to Computational Physics
R. Giles (BU)
15:50 D1.002 Computational Physics Degree Program at Trinity College
Charles Patterson (Department of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.)
16:10 D1.003 Physics Curriculum in the Virtual University
Geoffrey Fox (School of Computational Science and Information Technology. Florida State University)
16:30 D1.004 Community Discussion

Session D2. Computational Plasma Physics.

Monday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 237

15:30 D2.001 MHD-to-PIC transition for modeling of conduction and opening in a plasma opening switch
J.W. Schumer (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory)
16:06 D2.002 Laser Fusion Calculations on an Alpha Linux Cluster
D. Fyfe (Laboratory for Computational Physics, Naval Research Laboratory), K. Obenschain (Berkeley Research Associates), S. Obenschain (Plasma Physics Division, Naval Research Laboratory), J. Gardner (Laboratory for Computational Physics, Naval Research Laboratory)
16:18 D2.003 Kinetic simulation of a hot spot formation in high-Z plasma
Oleg Batishchev (MIT/MIPT), Valery Bychenkov (P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute, Russia), Wojciech Rozmus (University of Alberta, Canada)
16:30 D2.004 Nonlocal fluid models for magnetically confined plasmas
L.E. Sugiyama (MIT), W. Park (PPPL), H.R. Strauss (NYU)
16:42 D2.005 Particle Simulation of ICRF Absorption in VASIMR
Andrew Ilin, Franklin Chang Díaz, Jared Squire (Advanced Space Propulsion Laboratory, JSC/NASA), Boris Breizman (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin), Mark Carter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
16:54 D2.006 Numerical study of a helicon gas discharge
Oleg Batishchev, Kim Molvig (MIT, USA)
17:06 D2.007 An HLLC-type Approximate Riemann Solver for Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics
Katharine Gurski (National Institute for Standards and Technology)

Session D3. Nanostructures.

Monday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 153

15:30 D3.001 Simulations of Semiconductor Quantum Well Spectra
Erich Runge, Vincenzo Savona, Roland Zimmermann (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany)
15:42 D3.002 Methods for Calculating the Optical Response for Anisotropic Photonic Composite Systems
M. Maldovan, W.C. Carter (MIT)
15:54 D3.003 Giant Sparse Matrix Technique for Tight-Binding Models
Isa Zharekeshev (Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany)
16:06 D3.004 Large Scale Simulations of 3D Micromagnetics Structures in Magnetic Materials(thin films)
M. Redjdal (), F.B. Humphrey (Boston University)
16:18 D3.005 Static and Dynamic Properties of Stretched Water
Paulo A Netz (Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Porto Alegre, Brazil), Francis W. Starr (Polymers Division and Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, National Institute of Standards and Technology), H. E. Stanley (Center of Polymer Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA), Marcia C Barbosa (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil)
16:30 D3.006 Liquid-Liquid phase transition in a single component system
Giancarlo Franzese, Anna Skibinsky, Sergey Buldyrev, H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University)

Session D4. Quantum Simulations.

Monday afternoon, 15:30, Building 4, Room 231

15:30 D4.001 Effect of Bond Randomness on Two-Dimensional Spin-Gapped Heisenberg Antiferromagnet
Synge Todo (ETH Zurich), Shigeru Koikegami (ETL), Hajime Takayama (ISSP)
15:42 D4.002 Dimensionality effect of the Holstein polaron
Li-Chung Ku (UCLA and Los Alamos National Laboratory), S. A. Trugman (Theretical division, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
15:54 D4.003 Composite fermion flavor and stability of the fractional quantum Hall effect in higher Landau levels
Tarek Sbeouelji, Noureddine Meskini (Department of Physics, Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, 1060 El Manar Tunis, Tunisia.)
16:06 D4.004 Quantum Monte Carlo study of static electrical properties
Miroslav Hornik (Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON Canada L2S 3A1), Stuart M. Rothstein
16:18 D4.005 Fourth Order Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms for Solving Diverse Physical Problems
Siu A. Chin (Dept. of Physics, Texas Aamp;M University, College Station, TX 77843), Harald A. Forbert (Lehrstuhl fuer Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44801 Bochum, Germany)